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Thomas Schumacher - Hush (Catz 'n Dogz 2013 Remix )

It is our great pleasure to announce Atish as our latest Resident.  From the first time Atish played our festival, we knew it was a match made in heaven.  There are few DJs with as much charisma, skill, and heart than Atish.  Not to mention he's as weird as they come, which is just the way we like it ;)
 
Atish is much more than just a DJ and the music he plays is more than just songs.  His performances cannot be described as an act, but rather an all-encompassing experience: deep, emotive, ecstatic. It is more than the beautiful sounds emanating from the speakers, though, it is also the man behind the decks: warm, compassionate, inviting. In an age of oversized DJ egos there is still an artist who is devoted to connecting with his audience, a humble soul with a pure passion for music. This is Atish.
 
Welcome to the Family.  We Are All Desert Hearts <3

Live @ Desert Hearts - Atish - 019

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2nd Room x Fluxsy - Yellow Flicker Beat

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Visionquest is coming closer towards its 50th release. For its 49th release they turned to a new pairing of Sonny Fodera & Gene Farris for their debut EP on the label, with Lee Curtiss and Freaks on remix duty.  We have the Lee Curtiss rework for you.

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Full Premiere: Sonny Fodera & Gene Farris - We Work It (Lee Curtiss Remix)

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Live @ Desert Hearts - Marbs & Deep Jesus - 038

The story of Marbs and Deep Jesus began when they were in preschool. Best friends from the very beginning, they've been through everything together.  From fighting over their first girl on the playground to Deep Jesus saving Marbs' life, these two have remained best friends through it all. Most people don't know this but they learned to DJ at the same time and used to go by the duo name Marbs & Orey. This set from our Desert Hearts Spring Festival 2015 was the first time they reunited to play together in a long time and it was absolutely magical. The emotion and vibes were infectious as this massive 4 hour set painted a perfect picture of the history behind these two Desert Hearts Co-Founders. Make sure to check out the image that goes along with this mix as one can't help but feel all warm and fuzzy from the love these two have for one another. Now get ready to take a trip through the deep, melodic, and twisted sounds of two of our best Desert Hearts DJs. 4 hours of sonic bliss is exactly what the doctor ordered. 

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Live @ Desert Hearts - Marbs & Deep Jesus - 038

♥ Live @ Desert Hearts - Lonely Boy - 041 ♥

One of our favorite Desert Hearts Records artists, Lonely Boy, absolutely destroyed Sunday evening at our Spring Festival 2015. Armed with a tiger striped leotard jumpsuit and a gang of beautiful women prancing him, it was a spectacle to behold before he even played his first track. But once his music started bumping from the speakers it was obvious we were in for one of the best vibes of the entire festival. I think it's apparent Lonely Boy isn't so lonely anymore. 

House, Techno, & Love... We Are All Desert Hearts.

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Live @ Desert Hearts - Lonely Boy - 041

Live @ Desert Hearts - Halo - 042

Our good friend Halo Varga has been a staple in the San Diego music scene for over a decade. One of the true pioneers of proper Tech House and a Desert Hearts veteran, he's been an inspiration to us for years.  Known for his dark late night style, we decided to switch it up for our Spring Festival and see what he was capable of with the Noon slot on Saturday. A definite highlight of the weekend, get ready for some Halo madness Live from our Desert Hearts Spring Festival.

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Live @ Desert Hearts - Halo - 042

Justin Jay - Mom, I Graduated!

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From the heat of the BBQ to the smoking hot talent of Justin Jay, as he returns to the feathery fold with his latest release. The youngest of VonStroke's proteges, the 22 year old producer continues to build on the promise shown on a string of heavy hitting Dirtybird releases (Femme Fatale, Static, Instincts, Le Voyou.)  With all of his tracks created on the same college-dorm studio set up, it seems fitting that we bring you the last from those late night bunker sessions and a brace dedicated to the end of his studies and the start of the party.

'Mom I Graduated' launches in to life with the sassily titled ‘Hit It.’  Spring loaded beats adorn an eerie, vocoder-aided atmosphere, before double claps on the beat turn the track into an intensified stomper. The drop descends into thick sub bass, chopped up vocal samples and chiming, echoing percussion around its half time rhythm. This is big!!

Rain Dance starts life out of earshot.  A progressive melodic flurry gradually enters in to range through a mist of pitter patter FX touches, while ascending woodblocks bring us to the vocal drop and a thumping kick drum -“I’m gonna make it rain” - Booty aesthetics with a slowed tribal rhythm and swathes of sub bass leak through the speakers. A second summer anthem from the young Californian. 

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Justin Jay - Hit It [PREMIERE]

Gorgon City - ANTS Live Streaming @ Blue Parrot - The BPM Festival 08/02/2016

Cornucopia - They Day You Got Older And Stronger

Ice On The Dune

Old Flavours

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Bones (Remix)

"Normally I know that high expectations kill the vibe, so I always try to walk my way open minded and don’t expect anything special from the future, but this time I couldn’t help it. When the Robot told me that she wanted me to play the sunrise set and that we will be connected with the Mayan Warrior soundsystem, I could feel it already in Berlin a full three weeks before… Then when I finally took the bus over to Robot Heart it was even better than in my craziest expectations. This gig was by far the most emotional gig I have ever played. All I can say is thank you, I am even more happy now to be born on this weird planet which can be really beautiful sometimes, when you give it  chance to be free. Thank you you for dancing with me and giving me so much Love. So here is my try to give something back.

(This set includes only sounds, samples, synths, basses, pianos, vocals and lyrics which are created, recorded and arranged by Jan Blomqvist, Felix Lehman & Ryan Mathiesen. Except the vocals at Dancing People are never wrong and one tiny vocal sample in the last track, you'll recognize it)"

- Jan

Track list:

Drift | Empty Floor | Black Hole Nights | Something Says I Don’t Think About You | Dark Noise |Back In The Taxi | Dancing People Are Never Wrong | More | Unreleased Last Track

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Photo: Seth Bunting

Art piece: Awakening

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The human body is the most highly engineered object in existence, a machine of uncountable parts and unfathomable function. Its workings have served as inspiration for all of humanity's greatest inventions. This work is an homage to the two most amazing mechanisms in that machine: the human eye and hand. The head is a 16 foot camera obscura demonstrating the ray optics principals underlying the spherical lensed eye humans posses and the hands are actuated mimicking the tendons and bones of the body. Together they represent what separates life from the rest of the universe, the ability to observe the world around us and manifest change in that world. 

Jan Blomqvist (Live) - Robot Heart x Mayan Warrior - Burning Man 2016

Whether you made it out the desert this year and want to relive the vibes or just want to take a sonic journey, we wanted to release one of our live Burning Man sets from this year! Enjoy!

The Golden Pony Live @ Burning Man

Hi Burners and peeps in the Default World, I want to share my set @ Pile Palace, Burning Man 2016 with you. So stoked to travel back in space and time to this moment! Thank you Burning Man for the revelations, Pile Palace for hosting this, Mikey Lion for inviting me to play, my friends and their mums for turning up from all corners of the globe to dance and spread love. I had a great time and think back to this with happiness and nostalgia. See you next year!

Burning Man 2016

Sacha Robotti @ Pile Palace, Burning Man 2016

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Recorded live from one of my favorite places on the planet, the Pile Palace at Burning Man 2016. Pile Palace has always been my home on The Playa and the people that make up our camp are nothing short of family to me.  This is our vibe right here. Enjoy!

Mikey Lion - Live @ Burning Man - Pile Palace 2016

If there is one thing that the Playa lacks a shortage of, it's pleasant surprises. And boy oh boy was unders' surprise set at Pile Palace a pleasant one! We chatted with him recently about his impromptu grace of the decks at our beloved camp, and his overall experience at the Burn this year. Check out the interview and listen to his set, which is up on our Soundcloud now!

http://pilepalace.com/blog/2017/2/7/interview-surprise-unders-drops-in-to-play-a-set-on-the-playa

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Unders - Live From the Pile Palace - Burning Man 2016

After one of our headliners got lost in the dust and didn't make it to his peak slot of our Thursday party, Pile Palace residents B Rose & Mason filled in to deliver one of the most raging sets at the Pile all week. By the end of their set, the dance floor was jam packed and overflowing to the line of art cars that stopped to join the madness. Push play, and relive one of our favorite sets from Pile Palace 2016.

B Rose & Mason - Live @ Pile Palace 2016

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Prep School Recordings introduces new artists SNBRN and Mossberg Pump with the “Cool Beans” EP released July 16. Keep the groove going with the Southern California-based duo’s summery tunes, which are as fresh as a poolside Mojito.

SNBRN (formerly of No Body) and Mossberg Pump create a unique vibe which falls somewhere between Indie Dance, Nu-Disco, and Deep House. Apply heavily; sunglasses recommended.

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SNBRN & Mossberg Pump - Cool Beans (Original Mix)

♥ Desert Hearts Records Boss ♥
Bookings ~ Americas and Australia: jon@liaisonartists.com
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Part mythical desert harlequin, part modern soul conductor, Mikey Lion is more than a DJ––He’s a freak of nature and an energy controller. The San Diego-native has earned a dusty mystique over the past few years as the center of the Desert Hearts movement and as a house and techno provocateur with a stage presence that suggests he will ride this wave all the way to the top. If there's one thing Mikey does well, it's get the party started.

Lion, real name Michael Leon, has brought the mothafuckin' ruckus to the stages of Lightning in a Bottle, the dustiest storms at Burning Man, and The Do LaB at Coachella, earning nods from Claude VonStroke, Jamie Jones, and Green Velvet in the process. In doing so, Lion and his signature top hat have developed a boisterous voice in the House & Techno scene with strong tribal, hip-hop, and psychedelic elements.

But it all started with Wu-Tang and Daft Punk. Lion first found his way behind the decks as a thirteen year old kid, scratching underground hip-hop records religiously after school. At Coachella as a seventeen year old, he witnessed that legendary Daft Punk performance on the same night he tasted his first dose of psychedelics. The show had such a monumental impact on him, he gave up Hip-Hop and became a House DJ the very next day.

After honing his craft with weekly marathon DJ sessions at Sala Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Mikey was introduced to Burner culture at Lightning in a Bottle, 2011. It was at his first Burning Man in 2011 that he found a community calling and merged forces with his brother Porkchop, life long friends Marbs & Deep Jesus, and the inimitable Lee Reynolds to form The Desert Hearts Crew.

In November 2012, Desert Hearts began as a seedy, 200-person renegade gathering deep in the Mojave Desert. The intrepid crew barely survived a set of extreme weather conditions and unfortunate circumstances, but that first party sparked a fire. The entire point of that first Desert Hearts was to create as much love as humanly possible, and now that same gathering has evolved into the darling of the West Coast house and techno scene. The Bi-annual festival is capped at 3500 attendees in order to create the best possible vibe. Built upon beautiful people getting as weird as possible to deep and trippy house and techno, Desert Hearts has already achieved iconic status in the North American Festival Scene. 

Desert Hearts has given rise to a family of thousands and it's safe to call it a bonafide movement of love. And while Desert Hearts Records launched in 2014 as a totally-free record label, pushes the sonic aesthetic of the scene, the crew’s busy international calendar of bookings has the DH message spreading far and wide. At the center of it all is Mikey Lion, the dusty prince of desert hearts, a beacon of weird far and wide, and one of this generation’s most compelling agents of love.